Literature+for+Jewish+Immigration+P4

Literature media type="file" key="beethoven_furelise1.mid" width="300" height="50" The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. "The Statue of Liberty National Monument." Emma Lazarus, [] January 12, 2012 This is a poem about the Statue of Liberty that a woman wrote. In the poem she brings out how the Statue of Liberty opened up her arms to welcome new people, and give them free air to breathe. She is really explaining how immigrants were given a chance at freedom in the United States.

Heller, Joseph. "Catch-22." [] January 17, 2012 This is a passage from Joseph Heller's Catch-22. The story takes place during World War II and basically tells about the desire for a man to live and express his desires. He fakes a number of illnesses to stay in the hospital. This story shares a common theme of the Jewish people really wanting to live and fit in society. Even though this man is at was he longs to be home.

Colonel Cargill was a forceful, ruddy man. Before the war, he had been an alert, hard-hitting, aggressive marketing executive. He was a very bad marketing executive. Colonel Cargill was so bad a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. He had to start at the top and work himself down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning. A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and opened every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Even with such handicaps, Colonel Cargill could be relied on to run the most prosperous enterprise into the ground. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Rosenburg, Isaac. "The Jew." [] January 17, 2012. This is the poem "the Jew". Moses is a common person for the Jewish people to relate to. So when they write about him and discuss him they feel closer to home.

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